The South Central Muddogs' stadium is the DeLand High School football field in DeLand, Florida. The school agreed to let the director use the field if he paid for the stadium to be refurnished after filming.

When the film was released in November of 1998, it was preceded by the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). Many Star Wars fans who were not fans of Adam Sandler paid the full admission price and sat through the trailer, then left the theater.

Henry Winkler's role as Coach Klein came about after he was mentioned in Adam Sandler's huge hit "The Chanukah Song," where Sandler sang about various Jewish or half-Jewish entertainers. Sandler said, correctly, that the actor who played "The Fonz" on Happy Days (1974) is Jewish, and Winkler was thrilled by the reference and contacted Sandler to tell him so. Sandler then decided to ask Winkler if he would read the script for the coach's role and then say if he wanted to take the part. Winkler did so and immediately signed on to the film.

Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, granddaughter of silent screen star Harold Lloyd, filed a $50 million dollar lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company in 2000, claiming that this movie was plagiarized from Lloyd's silent film classic The Freshman (1925). By 2002, the courts had ruled against her.

The climactic Bourbon Bowl scene was filmed at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. However, the flyover shown in the film is actually of Williams-Brice stadium at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.

In the German version of this film, Adam Sandler is not dubbed by Dietmar Wunder as usual. Instead, the German Disney subsidiary used comedian Matthias Knop to perform the dubbing. At the time, Knop was successful with his character "Super-Ritchie" (a kind of extremely dumb-minded version of Superman) and he performed the dubbing in the same manner of speech as his "Super-Ritchie" character. The film was widely panned by critics and audiences alike and the dubbing is regarded as one of the worst in history.

When Bobby, mama Boucher & Vicky are at the barbecue, mama Boucher says before leaving, "Now you come on inside 'fore that little ol' witch cast a spell on you." Vicky (Fairuza Balk) played a witch casting spells in the movie "The Craft" two years prior (1996).

One of the sports headlines reads, "S.C.L.S.U. UPSETS LOUISVILLE 5 - 0." However, the only way to score five points in football is to get a field goal (three points) and a safety (two points). The headline implies that the only two players to score in that game would have been Bobby and the kicker, Derek Wallace, who was the only player who never picked on Bobby.

The tattoo on Vicki Valentines left arm is an occult symbol for water. It's blue which is associated with water. Also, the left side of the body is associated with love. Thus, it could symbolize "love of water".